The Lazarus Solution Quotes

“Perhaps, mentally, I should become a Catholic. If I do, it’ll be more because of the aesthetics around the rites than any need for absolution. I think it’s more important to be able to forgive yourself than to leave something so important to any perception we may have of God. Love, on the other hand, is a basic need. No one needs forgiveness for being human.”
― Kjell Ola Dahl, The Lazarus Solution

“Everyone has anguish they hide, he thought. Everyone has experiences that can be used to justify sides of their personality or behaviour. All anguish is unique and personal and cannot be measured and weighed against that of others.”
― Kjell Ola Dahl, The Lazarus Solution

“You were subjected to a disgraceful crime. The fact that no one came to your aid was also a crime, but I still think it’s a mistake to lose your faith, because if you reject what you believe in, something else will sneak in and replace what you abandon. If you deny solidarity and humanity to others, the alternative will be worse.”
― Kjell Ola Dahl, The Lazarus Solution

“The words that usually flowed with such ease deserted him this time. Instead he gazed at her, thinking that for the chosen few it was as though beauty was not a veneer that fades over time but something that shines from inside, as though its features are only mediating fragments of a larger identity.”
― Kjell Ola Dahl, The Lazarus Solution